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by bluescarni 7y ago
The FBI has been filing inaccurate FISA warrants for nearly two decades (the article on the Hill refers to incidents dating back to 2002/2003). Not really surprising in the post-9/11 era, where procedural abuses and law-enforcemen
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by bluescarni 7y ago
> In fact, this made me think that the microkernel approach was essentially a dishonest approach aimed at receiving more dollars for research. I don’t necessarily think these researchers were knowingly dishonest. Perhaps they were simply
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by bluescarni 8y ago
I thought one of Julia's compelling features is the ability drop down to the level of index arithmetics without losing performance (as Python does, once you start writing manual for loops). If I want to stick with higher-level construc
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by bluescarni 8y ago
Been wanting to try Julia out for a while, but the 1-based indexing is perennially putting me off. I can't see how I can avoid spending a large chunk of time (and endless frustration) unlearning years of 0-index muscle memory (nor I se
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by bluescarni 8y ago
Sorry but I think this is still an apt analogy. 1. "Everybody" knows that unordered sets/maps in C++ must de-facto use chaining due to the requirements imposed by the standard. 2. numpy.array is not part of the Python standar
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by bluescarni 8y ago
I wonder what the reaction would have been if he/she had written a blog post explaining how moving from list to numpy.array for storing numerical data in Python resulted in massive performance benefits. You gotta admit the situation is
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by bluescarni 8y ago
What a terrible article. It starts with the comparison of a general-purpose hash table with specifically-tailored one. Then it throws in a switch from a comparison-based sort to a radix-based one. Then, the stunning discovery that std::vect
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by bluescarni 8y ago
As a full-time linux user and occasional gamer, I have been using the AMD open drivers since circa 2010. The improvements have been massive , both in stability and performance. Since the availability of steam, I have been doing all my gami
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by bluescarni 8y ago
> We started working on the game in 2012 > Issues specific to Linux were almost entirely graphics driver related, and unique to the platform. So this is essentially a rant about linux graphics drivers circa 2012?
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by bluescarni 8y ago
The test results on Phoronix paint a rather different picture (i.e., the 2990WX being consistently and markedly faster than any other tested processor). My initial gut feeling reading the results on Anandtech is that Window's schedul
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by bluescarni 8y ago
I would not be so sure about the declining importance of GCC. GCC has caught up a lot with clang in the last few years, from the quality of error messages, to standard compliance, compilation times, tooling, sanitizers, etc. IME GCC tends t
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by bluescarni 8y ago
> As a C++ programmer I developed my own pet-coding-patterns and bad behaviours (e.g. make methods or destructors virtual even if not needed, create objects on the heap and manage them through smart pointers even if not needed, add a ful
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by bluescarni 9y ago
In his first factorial example, he could've avoided templates altogether with constexpr: https://godbolt.org/g/ZaoMNa Or just use a template specialisation: https://godbolt.org/g/TVkHMd
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by bluescarni 9y ago
From your list of "first-choice languages", C++ is conspicuously missing. That seems rather peculiar, as the type of genericity you are praising Julia for has been one of the core concepts of generic programming in C++ since basic